Definition for WHITE-PYR'ITE, or WHITE-PY-RI'TES

WHITE-PYR'ITE, or WHITE-PY-RI'TES, n. [white and pyrites; Fr. sulfure blanc.]

An ore of a tin-white color, passing into a brass-yellow nod steel-gray, occurring in octahedral crystals, sometimes stalactitical and botryoidal. It contains 46 parts of iron, and 54 of sulphur. – Cyc.

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